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In an agent-written codebase the agent-written tests are equally untrustworthy; manually using the product is the only reliable measure of whether it works.

Drawn from what Mario Zechner said

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    Mario Zechner 25 Mar 2026

    Worse, you realize that the gazillions of unit, snapshot, and e2e tests you had your clankers write are equally untrustworthy. The only thing that's still a reliable measure of "does this work" is manually testing the product.

    ↗Thoughts on slowing the fuck downmariozechner.at

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